Meeting for Worship and Worship Sharing

Daily online Meeting for Worship


Each morning from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts a silent, online half-hour online Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends. The Meeting uses a website called Chatzy that provides a text-only format – no audio or video. You can join the Meeting and read more about it by following the link below. All are welcome. 

Quaker Center online meeting for worship

Wednesday Online Worship Sharing


Each Wednesday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts an online Worship Sharing group. Newcomers are welcome. Click the Zoom link below to join the group.

What is Worship Sharing? During Worship Sharing, friends gather in a worshipful attitude to reflect together on a short text or quote, and some related queries (open ended questions). This activity is similar to a Quaker Meeting for Worship in that, after an initial period of silence, those present speak from their own experience and allow for silence between contributions. Participants usually speak only once, allowing some silence between each sharing, until everyone who wishes to has had a chance to share. Worship Sharing is appreciated by Quakers as a way to explore ideas together, learn and listen deeply, and to get to know one another in a meaningful way.

Zoom link for online worship sharing

If you’re new to Worship Sharing, you may wish to take a look at these suggested guidelines.

This week’s quotes:

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother’s hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth…”

“The way of the river is sacred, and this grove of trees is sacred, and we ourselves, we tell you, are sacred.” Susan Griffin “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”

“A cosmos which has intelligence at every level” Rupert Sheldrake

“Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any of these conductors, to be fed and nourished by them. Only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread”. John Muir

“That we take plant words in through our nose or our skin or our eyes or our tongue instead of our ears does not make their language less subtle, or sophisticated, or less filled with meaning. As the soul of a human being can never be understood from its chemistry or grammar, so cannot plant purpose, intelligence, or soul. Plants are much more than a sum of their parts. And they have been talking to us a long time.” Stephen Harrod Buhner Lost Language of Plants.

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” Robin Wall Kimmerer — Braiding Sweetgrass / The Serviceberry

This week’s queries:
  • How does your relationship with the divine and your relationship with nature intersect, if they do?
  • If they are divine, what does that make you?
  • How is that divinity expressed?
  • What does that mean for living?

First Wednesday evenings:
In-person Meeting for Worship

Each month on the first Wednesday, we’ll have an evening Meeting for Worship here at Quaker Center from 7:15 to 8:00 p.m. We’ll gather for an informal potluck before hand at about six. All are welcome. Call (831) 336-8333 with any questions, no need to RSVP. We usually meet in the Orchard Lodge, but look for the sign when you drive up – it will tell you where the Meeting for Worship will be held.